R7 250 Revised???

[AceTaker]

In July I got my new R7 250 2GB OC Edition from MSI. (Upgrade from a HD6450) I recognized that the older version (from 2013) uses an Oland GPU, while my current one has a Cape Verde GPU. Anyone know what this could be?

[david cassar]

Apparently some r7 250s have the cape verde core with extra shaders. An example of this is the sapphire radeon r7 250 'ultimate' http://www.hardwareluxx.com/index.php/reviews/hardware/vgacards/29726-test-sapphire-radeon-r7-250-ultimate-.html

[Space Reptile]

you can already see that the cap verde has more shaders and more core clock and memory clock , higher DX support and runs off a full 16x slot 

so its definetly a better/newer chip 

[Vadise]

Yes, it's a thing. I do have Sapphire's equivalent. Other than the slight boost in performance, the 512 SP version is perfectly compatible with everything the 384 SP version was, as far as I could notice. That being Dual Graphics compatibility and whatnot.

 

So far I think the only R7 250 that is not really an R7 250, is Sapphire's Ultimate R7 250.

[Space Reptile]

consider the 512 sp version a 250x and the 384 sp the normal 250 

[Vode]

Yes some rebranded 7750 have the Cape Verde chip. It performs very simlar to Oland but a bit better. 

 

Radeon HD 7750 Ultimate is the same card as the R7 250 Ultimate. Just the bios is modded that it reads out the changed name.